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Steps

Method1

Woodcutting

Why should you master woodcutting? It is a basic skill, but it is essential. You need logs to light up fire, and you need fire to cook food. If your woodcutting is very high, you can cut down trees and make money!

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Start out by cutting normal trees and selling the logs for the market price in the Grand Exchange (G.E.). You should level quickly.

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Then, when your woodcutting level reaches 15, start cutting oaks at the Varrock Palace and selling it to the G.E. for the minimum price.

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When your woodcutting level reaches 30, start cutting willows, store the logs into the bank, and sell them all at once in the G.E. In about 260-270 hours, you should be able to get 99 woodcutting.

Method2

Firemaking

Make a fire and add logs to fire using the add to fire right click option on fire after clicking the log, until the desired level.

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At level 1-15, burn normal logs. They are quite expensive, but the first few levels go by fast

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At level 15-30, burn oak logs. Getting level 30 won't take long.

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At level 30-45, burn willow logs. They are extremely cheap and very fast XP for those levels.

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At level 45-60, burn maple logs. They are also extremely cheap and up to 160,000 XP.

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At level 60-99, burn yew logs. You will need about 20 mil to get 99 firemaking with yew. If you cannot afford 99 firemaking with yews, burning maple all the way to 99 works too. 99 firemaking should take only 80 hours with maple or 50 hours with yew.

Method3

Fishing

Why should you master fishing? It is the most basic skill to get raw stuff so that you can cook it. If you want to make money with a high fishing level, you will need a lot of time and patience.

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Start out with crayfish, which is located behind the church. Ask Father Areck for a cage, or take a free sample at the fish shop.Keep fishing it and then drop it. (Unless you want to cook it. If so, read on.)

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Start fishing trout and salmon at level 20 and continue until 99. You should get 99 in around 250 hours

Method4

Cooking

Why should you master cooking? You will need to cook food to heal hp (or to sell for money). Certain things need a range to cook (e.g. cakes). With a range, you will burn stuff less often, which is the good news. You can find ranges in Lumbridge Castle, Varrock, and scattered everywhere in the Runescape world. When you are done fishing, cook it for XP. You should know when to step up and fish and cook for better foods.

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Like when your cooking and fishing level reaches 5, you should fish and cook for herring. Also, you don't have to fish to cook. You can buy it from the G.E. (not recommended). I don't remember all the fish, but you can do it yourself.

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When your cooking level reaches 45, you should be able to cook for swordfish. Keep in mind that you will burn some, so drop the burnt ones, and keep fishing for swordfish. THIS IS NOT RECOMMENDED. It takes time, but you should get 99 cooking in about 90 hours (if your cooking level is already 45). The Lumbridge Castle is the best one, and Al Kharid is slightly farther, but you don't have to climb any stairs (the range in Al Kharid is within sight of the bank). The lumbridge range makes you burn food less than other ranges.

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When your cooking level gets into the fifties you can no longer burn trout which is handy because the cost of raw/ cooked trout is almost the same, so by cooking large amounts of them (for 70xp each) you can get your level up for virtually no money (which is helpful for F2P Runescapers but if money isn't a problem then by all means get better fish).

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When your cooking level hits 74, you can no longer burn lobsters. Cook lobsters until level 99, OR cook either Trout, Salmon or Tuna, depending on your liking. Note: At level 84+ cooking, all those fish mentioned above WILL NOT BURN.

Method5

Ranged

Why should you master ranged? It is good to attack things from a distance since your HP's XP will gain faster than a warrior. Also, with a ranged level of 40, you get to wear cool armor! Ranging is boring, so do other stuff once in a while.

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Start by getting Kayle's sling from a quest called "The Blood Pact." The sling has unlimited ammo, but it is feeble. Alternatively, you can get a free short bow & 30 bronze arrows from the ranging shop in Varrock. Start ranging chickens, because they never hit you and collect feathers for money. Continue this until 20 ranged.

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Now go into the Edgeville dungeon and train on hill giants from safe spots until 40 ranged and then train on flesh crawlers or continue on hill giants. Note:Hill giants drop big bones which are useful for prayer XP and money.

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Get 60 ranged and train on lesser demons in the volcano on Karamja until 80 ranged. This can get boring so take breaks

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Train there until 80 ranged and go into the wilderness volcano to fight greater demons, there is a bank near to put your drops in, greater demons Do this until 99 range which should take 130-140 hours.

Method6

Prayer

Why should you master prayer? When you are fighting, it is good to use prayer to help boost your attack, strength, defense, and other stats. If your prayer level is 43, you can do the protect from magic, missiles (arrows), and melee, which are very effective. If your prayer level is 70, you can bless someone else's gravestone so that it will last for a long time. Prayer takes a long time, however. Every big bone gives you 15 experience

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Bury big bones until 99 prayer. Using the strong arm burial animation will speed up your prayer training greatly. 99 prayer should take about 90 hours.

Note: If you are trying to get 99 ranged and prayer then train on either moss giants in crandor or ice giants in the dungeon south of Port Sarim. Range them from the handful of safe spots and then take their bones. This will save you a LOT of money.

Method7

Magic

Why should you master magic? Just like ranged, it is good to attack people from a distance. Also, if you are fighting a warrior because magic deal a lot more damage to warrior and there is an obstacle between, it actually puts him at a disadvantage. Armor can make the spells you cast even MORE effective!

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Use a staff of air at low levels to save money and kill chickens using the highest air spell you can use at your level.

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After level 43 magic, you should start to superheat all the way to 99. This has been proven to be the fastest in F2P. This spell requires a fairly large amount of nature runes to reach 99. It is recommended that you use a Fire staff. Make sure you are super-heating either iron or gold as they are the fastest XP. This should take about 80-90 hours to reach 99.

Method8

Melee

Why should you master melee? It is a good idea to train combat, especially if you want something you really want, but will need a high combat level to take it (e.g. rune armor will need 40 defense; rune spike shield and berserker shield will need 45 defense). Also, there are monsters that drop large amounts of valuable items. If you have a high enough combat level, you can pick up the items the NPC dropped!

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Start by training attack, then defence, then strength.Train on chickens until 30 in all stats.

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At level 30, hill giants are fast xp

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At level 50, kill deadly red spiders all the way to 99, make sure you have at least a rune weapon by now and bring plenty of food. 99 should take around 120-130 hours.

Method9

Crafting

Why should you master crafting? Players who like the amulet of power, strength, and accuracy that other players have made. Players love to adorn their characters with necklaces and amulets so that a master jewelry maker can be a very wealthy player. Crafting is also good if you are a low-level range character since you can use cowhides from cows to make ranged armor.

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First, you do quests that will increase your crafting level (sheep shearer, for example).

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Then, you get leather, using a needle and some thread, make it into the best item that you can craft for.

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Also another good way is by mining silver(or buying silver bars), and then turning them into Tiaras. If you want to buy/mine silver ores, it's ok. You get 14 XP per ore turned into bar. (52.5 crafting experience per tiara) So that means a full inv of silver bars (if tiara mould is on tool belt) will be 1470 XP. You should get 99 crafting in around 140-150 hours.

Method10

Runecrafting

Go to Runespan in portal on 2nd floor of wizard's tower south of draynor, until the desired level.

Siphon the best nodes for best XP; you should be able to get 99 runecrafting in around 300-400 hours depending on luck.

Method11

Mining

Why Should you master mining, Well first off its the best way to make money in F2P.

Best For Money

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First mine tin at Varrock east do this until you get a level of 15 these grant you 17.5 XP each they also are 22 GP.

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Next, domine iron at Falador Mines do this until 99 mining this grants you 35 XP per ore, but it is good money. There is a dungeoneering entrance since the skill was introduced where you can find a bank deposit box.

Method12

Smithing

This skill is considered one of the most challenging skills to achieve 99 in. It definitely requires a lot of time, and if buying bars, it requires a lot of money as well. A helpful tip to ease some of your boredom would be to either chat with other people or mine some of the ores. Hope this guide helps.

1-18: Bronze bars Start out by buying equal amounts of tin and copper and smelt them into bronze bars. Do this until level 18.

18-33: Bronze Platebodies With the bronze bars that you made in the previous step use them to make bronze plate bodies. This is the fastest way to get smithing XP here, but you are not limited to making these. Platebodies are just the best way to gain smithing levels. You will probably have to buy or smelt more bronze bars to get to make enough bronze plate bodies to get to level 33.

33-48: Iron Platebodies It is recommended you mine and smelt some of your iron bars here as the success rate of smelting iron bars hovers around 70-80%, and doing so should save you some money. Again, making plate bodies is the fastest way to gain XP/levels.

48-68: Steel Platebodies Things will start not to get but feel a lot slower here, and if you are one of those people who do not like to spend a lot of money, I would highly suggest either continuing making iron plate bodies, as iron bars cost roughly 1/3 of steel bars, or mining and smelting the ores.

68-88: Mithril Platebodies These are faster xp that steel platebodies, but also cost a lot more. You will need hundreds of million to achieve 88 smithing.

88-99: Adamant Platebodies. These are the absolute fastest way to train smithing in f2p. You should get 99 in around 40-50 hours.

Alternative method: The artisan workshop is very afk, but a slower method to train smithing at the mid levels. If you want to afk, this is a good option.

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Tips

Remember that prices in the Grand Exchange will vary from time to time, so when you think it reaches the highest, sell it.

Remember: This guide is mainly showing you how to get 99 in the skill, not by making money with that skill.

Just remember that when you reach around level 70 in a skill, it gets extremely boring, so train on other skills first.

Also just note that the tinderbox is unlimited, which means that it can light up an infinite amount of logs.

Also remember that when you achieve a level (e.g. mining level 31), then, you can buy a better pickaxe so that you can mine faster.

Sometimes, random events happen to you and you do not know what to do. If you follow the instructions from a man, you will get a reward. The maze has the best-I once got 53 death runes, 200 steel arrows, and 20 law runes as a reward when I completed the labyrinth!

Don't waste your time talking to other people unless it is necessary. If the skill that you are working on gets really boring, you are free to join a clan, but for the most part, you don't want to waste your time on the computer talking to other people. If you are trying to sell an item that is hard to sell at the Grand Exchange, you may do so, but please keep in mind that you want to get your skills as fast as possible to 99. Then, you are free to talk, and create another account and start the whole cycle over again.

When you are mining, another person might steal your ore that you are trying to mine. To prevent this, click on the ore when your pickaxe touches it. It must be exactly on the ore or else it won't work. If you have done this correctly, the other guy(s) will need to start over twice, and you will instantly have the ore in your inventory.

A good and easy way to get smithing up is to do the Knights Quest. It takes about 15 minutes and will grant you smithing 12,725 XP. This will get you from level 1 to 29 smithing.

If you're an F2P miner and choose to mine runite at level 85, remember that runite ore can take up to 12 minutes to respawn and it's also available in the mining guild resource dungeon, but that is botted on regularly with bots switching worlds.

If you need money, try to get cowhides and sell it. You will need money to train skills, and you need a lot. For more information, read Make Money in RuneScape as a Member. If you are a non-member and need money, the article has some non-member methods to make money. You'll be surprised at how much the main author worked on that article.

If you get really bored if you train, consider doing something else while training. This is not recommended if you have a slow Internet connection. You can go on wikiHow or YouTube, or you can go to a place you always go before wikiHow and Runescape.

Be helpful to other people! Once in a while, you are free to ask what their mining level is or what. But for the most part, try not to get into any arguments(If you really want to teach somebody manners, keep vulgarities out of the way) so that you don't get reported and get muted or even banned.

Getting a high level of any skill requires a lot of time, so don't give up even if you had to take a month to get a skill to level 70.

Remember that when you are crafting ranged armor, the thread will run out eventually, so get extra thread. Don't worry; even 1K thread will only take up one inventory space.

Dungeoneering, the new skill released is a somewhat decent way to train all F2P stats at once without paying any gold-- just make sure your XP share is on when you are dungeoneering in a group, so others can "donate" some XP to you. If you find dungeoneering useful to train certain stats, feel free to train while dungeoneering!

If you see your levels going slower and slower, stop looking at the stat sheet. it will go by much faster if you're not checking every 10 seconds.

Also fishing and cooking goes together. Best fish tuna (level 35) or sword (level 50) fish for a lot of XP for cooking. Good place to do this is on karamja island (WARNING may be a lot of people there).

IF you are a member then you should be using the ectofungus near Canfis to get more experience.

Warnings

Runescape is a game, so take a break once in a while. Say that you have played 2 hours straight. Well, you will need to take a break, unless you want your parents to yell at you non-stop.

In conclusion, as your levels gets higher and higher, you might want to keep kind and stay out of 'crime' so your efforts won't be wasted by being banned or any other dangerous motions (such as being hacked).

If you read this guide closely and accurately, if you follow this guide to get level 99 in almost every skill, it will take more than one year. Prepare yourself.

If you are banned (temporary), you are not allowed to play on that account for a particular time. To find out when it will be unbanned, simply try to log on to the banned account and it will say that it is banned, and how many days before it will be unbanned. If you get banned (permanent), then that means you are not allowed to play on that account anymore. You can still check out the high scores and see if you have any skill on there, but you will need to create a new account unless you want to quit.

If you get muted, you are not able to talk freely, but you are still able to use the quick chat. P-mods have the ability to mute people if they are getting carried away or offending another person. The more severe the situation is, the longer you will get muted. If this is a permanent mute, you are free to create another account and start the cycle over again, but you can still play on it. Just because an account is muted doesn't mean it is banned.